functional enuresis is one of the most prevalent cases referred to child psychiatric clinics. the following results were obtained while studying 875 cases of enuresis at esmaili psychiatric center from february 1983 to february 1991, over a period of 8 years. the incidence of functional enuresis is more prevalent among boys as compared to girls, the ratio being 4.5: 1, and incidence of primary ...

Enuresis is a symptom that is frequently encountered in child psychiatric evaluations. Careful assessment is required to identify specific urologic, developmental, psychosocial, and sleep-related etiologies. For most children with enuresis, however, a specific etiology cannot be determined. Treatment then involves supportive approaches, conditioning with a urine alarm, or medications--imipramin...

Nocturnal enuresis (enuresis or bedwetting) is the most common type of urinary incontinence in children. Depending on the definition, prevalence is 8-20% for 5 year olds, 1.5-10% for 10 year olds, and 0.5-2% for adults, with 2.6% of 7.5 year old children wetting on two or more nights a week. Prevalence seems to be similar worldwide. Here, we review current knowledge about the treatment of this ...

This report describes the efficacy of combined use of aripiprazole in the treatment of a patient with clozapine induced enuresis. Aripiprazole acts as a potential dopamine partial agonist and the dopamine blockade in the basal ganglia might be one of the causes of urinary incontinence and enuresis. We speculate that aripiprazole functioned as a D2 agonist in hypodopaminergic state of basal gang...

Enuresis is defined as repeated, spontaneous voiding of urine during sleep in a child five years or older. It affects 5 to 7 million children in the United States. Primary nocturnal enuresis is caused by a disparity between bladder capacity and nocturnal urine production and failure of the child to awaken in response to a full bladder. Less commonly, enuresis is secondary to a medical, psycholo...

Nocturnal enuresis is a common and distressing condition for which many different treatments may be helpful.' Although general measures, including an energetic, confident, and sympathetic doctor, are of prime importance, the enuresis alarm is easily the most successful specific treatment available. Given the careful analyses of its use,' and the helpful advice that has been published about its ...

Background: Nocturnal enuresis is an important developmental problem for school age children and it can cause emotional and social problems for the child as well as family. Aim of the Study: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of nocturnal enuresis in children aged 613 years of age in the study area, to investigate the risk factors associated with nocturnal enuresis and to...

Background “Enuresis “ also known as bedwetting or night-time incontinence is the inability to control urination during sleep [1,2]. Mono-symptomatic enuresis (MNE) is the only night-time incontinence and “not mono-symptomatic enuresis” (NMNE) is also the daytime urinary disorders. Bedwetting is a disorder that affects the development of children personality and interferes with social relations...

Introduction: Sleep disorder caused by adenotonsillar hypertrophy has been implicated as a cause of primary and secondary nocturnal enuresis in children.  This study was conducted to investigate the effect of adenotonsillectomy on enuresis in children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy.  Materials and Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted in Hamadan City in Western Iran, from Ap...